to be found in every direction but interminable tracts of reedy
grass, eight or ten feet high, traversed by narrow baths, often
almost impassable. Here and there were clumps of fruit trees,
patches of low wood, and abundance of plantations and rice
grounds, all of which are, in tropical regions, a very desert for
the entomologist. The virgin forest that I was in search of,
existed only on the summits and on the steep rocky sides of the
mountains a long way off, and in inaccessible situations. In the
suburbs of the village I found a fair number of bees and wasps,
and some small but interesting beetles. Two or three new birds
were obtained by my hunters, and by incessant inquiries and
promises Í succeeded in getting the natives to bring me some land
shells, among which was a very fine and handsome one, Helix
pyrostoma. I was, however, completely wasting my time here
compared with what I might be doing in a good locality, and after
a week returned to Ternate, quite disappointed with my first
attempts at collecting in Gilolo.

In the country round about Sahoe, and in the interior, there is a
large population of indigenes, numbers of whom came daily into
the village, bringing their produce for sale, while others were
engaged as labourers by the Chinese and Ternate traders. A
careful examination convinced me that these people are radically
distinct from all the Malay races. Their stature and their
features, as well as their disposition and habits, are almost the
same as those of the Papuans; their hair is semi-Papuan-neither
straight, smooth, and glossy, like all true Malays', nor so
frizzly and woolly as the perfect Papuan type, but always crisp,
waved, and rough, such as often occurs among the true Papuans,
but never among the Malays. Their colour alone is often exactly